The Hour Record

Has anyone, and by anyone I mean @xavierdisley :) , done any calcs as to Wiggins Power/CdA for the hour?

Details about what changed recently..
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/hour-record-rule-change-athletes-hour-scrapped-123397

heard that

Nah, he attacked the Merckx 'athlete' hour and did a 49-something.

And was a drug cheat.

thought it was just the 55km mark

Ah, Rominger.

Not actually busted for doping but 'coached' by Ferrari so totes legit..

When the UCI went "hang on hang on you can't beat druggie Merckx by using better positions and more aero bikes!" they changed the faster records to 'Best Human Effort' and the Hour was split so the records done on a 'normal' track bike like Merckx were 'Atheletes Hour' records.

I did hear something about 60 tooth and aero but the crowd was too loud.

i was sitting on an old friends fruit and veg stall by yauatcha on berwick st mkt in soho round miday today and Sir Bradly walked past with fam
"Well done Brad,ya smashed it " says I ,
he turned and looked at me and my dream and said 'Thanks"

Oh I agree..

stopped working in TV 2 years ago

Ah, Rominger.

Not actually busted for doping but 'coached' by Ferrari so totes legit..

Indeed, "as pure as the driven EPO"

yeah. trying to figure it out;
So before 2014 and after 1997 there were two sets, one with any bike (basically) called best human effort, and then there was the athletes hour one which people had to do on the original Merckx bike essentially.
After 2014 they put them all together to make the UCI unified hour record but got rid of basically all the good, previous best human effort records and since then dowwett broke the record with 52km. To compete in this the bike had to be a legal pursuit bike of the time. And now Braders has broken this record.

Sorry if this is repetitive and/or already covered.

I heard low 0.20s and 450w being thrown around. 400w and 0.176 if you believe the BBC infographic.

You're still on TV so you're still part of the problem :P

No, almost certainly his power is to be kept as steady as possible.

Yes, realised this later having heard him say as much in an interview...also, do you mean smooth out the turns vertically or horizontally, or both?

Think: turning the track into more of a circle, reducing the need for steering input in the bends.

Are they overshoes? No wonder the UCI didn't let the Boardman hour stand...

i can hold 450w for 35 seconds.. just another 59 mins and 25 seconds then

:(

You're probably not as aero either :)

can't argue with that

@Brave - you must have been pretty excited yesterday - Wiggo doing the business, a telly appearance AND dreamy Pete K winning in the Dauphine.. did you contain yourself? ; )

I can do a smidge better but one of my calf muscles could be dissected to form a whole Wiggo. I don't understand how he can make that much power with those widdle weggies.

It's lucky you're so dishy

Nah that looks more like an f-bomb.